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Go ahead and shoot me but you do have enough threads on your bolts, yes?

Leatherneck wrote:Go ahead and shoot me but you do have enough threads on your bolts, yes?

Yep i checked that.

IF it is not sucking it up it must have a piece of metal or something blocking the way, all areas are flush and smooth?

Leatherneck wrote:IF it is not sucking it up it must have a piece of metal or something blocking the way, all areas are flush and smooth?

All the parts are brand new except the caps but they where cleaned and sand blasted. I even took the seal out to see if it will tighten up.

I think i will take the bearing out and see if i can get it to tighten up . just trying to eliminate posabilitys.

Sounds like your bolts are too long. When I make trailing arms, I drill out holes behind the bearing carrier just in case. Try some bolts that are 1/8" shorter.

ChadRat wrote:Sounds like your bolts are too long. When I make trailing arms, I drill out holes behind the bearing carrier just in case. Try some bolts that are 1/8" shorter.

I have no clue what it was but i took it all apart checked every thing put the bolts in the holes to see if they where bottoming out. nope I put it all back together and it worked go figure .

So i got the car rolling again.





Put i have another problem. who ever it was that had the car before me and did the swingaxel to irs conversion welded in the pasanger side mount at the wrong angle . so i have to cut it out and start over. is there anyone local that has a irs jig i can use.

Damn you....those arms look bitchen....now you are making me think about future "UPGRADES" before my car is running

so I went to mckenzies and bought new pivet brackets and the conversion jig.

My gussets also showed up .

You better put those in a jig before you weld that much to them or they will warp like crazy.

-Mark

Looks like a place to store dirt or sand if it stays open. Nice work though.

that looks tight foo for really. i have to look back at your thread to see what size they are. but your ride is lookin good dude.

Crash wrote:You better put those in a jig before you weld that much to them or they will warp like crazy.

-Mark

Ya i know haven't figured that part out yet

still working on fixing the pivit brackets they where originaly welded in wrong so i had to pick up the jig and brakets from mckenzies .



the plasma cuter made it alot easyier. but i still have a good amount of grinding.

I would like to run the 22gal cell that goes in the back seat area there is one for sale on the samba but he wont call me back.
who makes them and where can i find one?

Don't know about the one over at TOS, but for an inexpensive cell, look at JAZ Products. If you pay for it at Pomona Swap Meet and have it shipped you can usually get it for a little less.

RCI makes some shortys also...

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku

The one on the samba is a little different, but Latest Rage makes one very similar. Replaces the back seat. I can get them for about $140

But, there is no way to get foam into the tank. It has a very small filler hole.